From: Glenn Bradford (gmbbradford@netscape.net)
Date: Thu Jan 23 2003 - 19:47:26 GMT
Greetings,
http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/0007/att-0011/00-part
Horse is absolutely wrong in his defence of theft and now compounds his
abuse of my work by publishing, in its entirety, our private
correspondence. Perhaps I should publish Mr White's full name and
address, together with his CV from 1998! Clearly, once I had found out
that Horse had used my essay without my permission (URL above), I
thought Horse an honourable sort who would reference it PROPERLY and so
I ignored the original theft. Having very graciously forgiven Horse for
stealing my essay, and even more graciously given permission for Horse
to use it, I now find that a search engine takes anyone straight to it
with no referencing on the page - EXCEPT 'MOQ.ORG'. The suggestion that
people who find it via a search engine can easily find the true credit
by trawling through archives they may not even realise exist is utterly
fatuous; equivalent to me ripping the cover off a book, putting a new
one it with my name on and advertising it in the high street, while
claiming (when found out) that the name of the real author is pinned up
on the local supermarket notice board for all to see.
I suppose my mistake was to believe Horse when he wrote that he had,
finally, given me credit for it. I had no idea that he would think
crediting me for it on an entirely different web page would suffice. It
does not, and the charge of outrageous dishonesty stands, and will
continue to stand until Horse either removes my essay or gives me proper
credit on the same web page.
Looking back on it, I can see I was duped. Why, for example, is my essay
the only thing Horse has ever posted as an attachment? Why did he not
put it into the body of his e-mail which makes clear that it does not
belong to moq.org so that all could see this to be the case? Why did he
write 'moq.org' as a reference at the bottom of my essay - the only
piece of added information? Why did he not write at the top, or bottom,
of the essay 'origin unknown', or words to that effect? Why did he not
make any effort to find out the author's identity by supplying the title
to the forum and asking for help?
Horse is free to use my essay. It is beyond obvious that he is morally
and legally bound to reference it properly. He certainly is NOT free to
reference it 'moq.org'. That is theft.
I can't for the life of me understand how this could possibly be
construed as anything other than a reasonable request and am appalled at
Horse's continued dishonesty.
Struan
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